Jacques Villeneuve Quotes
Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?
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That's the magic of this band: shooting from the hip. The lights have to follow our cues, because we're not going to follow their cues. We're not going to stick to a song the way it's supposed to be. Everything is up to us. That's music to me. That's American music. We're an American band.
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I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
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His hands as he worked were deft and sure, but so gentle -- he was being careful not to hurt me any more than he had to. I sat very still, hardly daring to move. I was in love with him. The knowledge swept through me, truer than anything I'd ever known. Oh, my God, I was in love with him.
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Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.
